Re: Which frontend?

[Matevz Jekovec]

I personally prefer JLilyPondTool myself over other tools (ok, NoteEdit
is a composition tool and cannot count - it's not a typesetter). It's
completely cross-platform like Jedit, it's simply installed in Jedit by
Plugins->Plugin manager..., update list, select jlilypondtool to
install. Beside the features below, I'd like to mention some nice
buttons in the toolbar (like run lily, run convert-ly, show preview in
gs, show preview in pdf, playback the score) and some shortcuts for
things like insert tempo marking, spanner, disable bar numbers etc.

I'd like to thank the author for JLilyPondTool, because it speeds up the
typesetting in Lily for me very much!

Regards.
- Matevž

Bertalan Fodor wrote:
> Well, I'm a bit disappointed about what you said about the
> jEdit+LilyPondTool set.
> - I can confirm that setting up everything may be more than just to
> apt-get something. However, as far as I see you may get LilyPondTool
> running by just downloading Java, jEdit and making three clicks with
> your mouse in jEdit. Perhaps you also need to configure some
> properties, but that's quite natural.
> - We don't have a lyqi-mode yet, that's true. We'd like to do one, but
> didn't have the time yet, so it's half-made.
>
> However, LilyPondTool is created for some very important purpose, and
> some unique features:
> - code completion - if you like browsing the documentation all the way
> to find out the exact name and syntax of properties and commands, or
> you can remember everything you need, don't use it
> - score setup wizard with customizable templates - if you can easily
> read and remember the structure of a LilyPond file, and you can find
> and modify an appropriate lilypond file faster and easier than
> visually setting up the score and selecting its properties, and then
> don't use it
> - lilypond documentation in indexed full-text searchable help - if you
> like browsing some 10MB HTML files instead of just entering some
> keywords and quickly browse through the hits, then don't use it
> - instant error report - if you never make any mistakes, and you
> always close your braces and beams and slurs, then don't use it
> - automatic hyphenation of lyrics - if you write lyrics, but you find
> it easier to manually hyphenate it, instead of leaving it to the
> OpenOffice hyphenation dictionaries, and just making some corrections
> (which are needed because text hyphenation is not the same as lyrics),
> don't use it
> - macros and templates for many LilyPond constructs and it's easy to
> create new ones - repeats, articulations applied to note blocks, text
> markups, general tweaks
>
> I must admit that we have some not-working features, but have much
> more working features than emacs has. And (besides lyqi) we have all
> features working that emacs has.
>
> Bert

signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature